Microsoft, Novell collaborate on LDAP access to SharePoint

Microsoft and Novell are collaborating on an identity federation solution that will allow LDAP directories to access Microsoft SharePoint.

The solution, which will ship in March, adds a service component to Novell’s Access Manager identity management system to federate identities to SharePoint, said Joshua Dorfman, Novell’s senior director of global partner marketing.

Yes, that’s Novell developing in collaboration with Microsoft. These two companies are becoming indistinguishable. Other obvious areas where Novell is developing for Microsoft are Mono and Moonlight. Microsoft is still working hard to spread Silverlight™, even using the development scam which strives to characterise Silverlight as “open source” [1, 2, 3, 4]. It’s only pretense of “open source” and the confusion proves effective. Here is another potential attempt to associate Silverlight with “open source”:

McObject® announced it has successfully ported Perst™, its open source, object-oriented embedded database system, to Microsoft’s Silverlight technology for building rich Web applications.

“The way I put it is: Chapter 58 in most antitrust textbooks is ‘Bundling the Browser With Your Operating System.’ Chapter 1 is ‘Buying Your Distribution Channel,’” McNealy said in an interview with Newsweek magazine to be published tomorrow. “It’s like Standard Oil buying gas stations.” June 2003

“We are in a fairly unique position in a couple of ways. We have patent amnesty/patent peace as part of our contract [...] the customer doesn’t have to anticipate a patent or an IP [intellectual property] battle between the two companies.

“I can guarantee you that Microsoft is going to have a very different view if Red Hat or SUSE desktops step on Microsoft IP-there’s no patent peace/patent amnesty and 10-year interoperability agreement between Novell and Microsoft or between Red Hat and Microsoft.” March 2005

If Microsoft partners where involved, then Microsoft products were involved.

Sufficiently advanced incompetence in indistinguishable from malice.

clayclamp Reply:January 28th, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Wow. Just wow.

your_friend Reply:January 29th, 2010 at 1:18 am

Heh, there’s better than an 80% chance that Microsoft software was used. “90% of the world’s computers” is what the fanboys say but it’s more like 100% of the world’s least competent desktops. From the article:

Although other large cemeteries years ago implemented computerized systems to handle burial records and track grave locations with precision via satellite, Arlington has failed to do the same despite a decade of effort and spending nearly $6 million, mostly on a small band of shady contractors.

Following the “shady contractors” link, we find, “Offise Solutions Inc.” how very novell! Also very Microsoft like are no bid contracts, abuse of minority set assides, child sex charges and other corruption typical of bullies in power. My favorite accusation is emails sent on behalf of others without their knowledge or consent, like Microsoft’s use of dead people’s names to spam the US congress. Perhaps people from Arlington also petitioned Uncle Sam on Microsoft’s behalf.

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